September 2025: Show and Tell

Everyday AWS users from across the greater Canberra region are building and deploying on AWS. Our September meetup will be a showcase the work of our local builders.

Agenda
5:30 Doors open
6:00 Welcome and Latest from AWS
6:15 Talk 1 - From Idea to Online: A Story of Deploying with AWS Fargate - Yi Jiang
6:30 Talk 2 - Beating the Real Estate Market with AWS for Fun and Savings - Miles Greenwark
6:45 Food, Drinks and Networking
7:15 Talk 3 - Secure, multi-tenant deployments to AWS using GitLab CI - Django Cass
7:30 Talk 4 - Gata Ticket Router - Dave Hall
7:45 More networking
8:30 Close

Catering this month is supplied by SoLita Pizzeria, Restaurant & Bar.

Presentations

From Idea to Online: A Story of Deploying with AWS Fargate - Yi Jiang
This talk shares the story of using AWS Fargate to quickly deploy a secure, containerised web application without managing servers. I’ll break down the key components — containers, task definitions, load balancers, security groups, and SSL — and show how they come together into a production-ready architecture. The session also highlights lessons learned, from rapid delivery to trade-offs in control and cost, and how GitHub Actions and CloudFormation streamlined the pipeline. Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of where Fargate fits best and how to apply it for fast, reliable web app delivery.

Beating the Real Estate Market with AWS for Fun and Savings - Miles Greenwark
Miles covers how he leveraged AWS to buy a house through web scraping and some 'hacker' techniques, as well as how to architect a similar data pipeline solution more effectively in the future.

Secure, Multi Tenant Deployments to AWS using GitLab CI - Django Cass
Strictly-controlled environments often impose lots of security restrictions, many of which make it difficult to follow the standard DevSecOps practices you might use in AWS. This talk describes how we enabled multi-tenant deployments to AWS in strictly-controlled environments, the problems we encountered along the way, and the workarounds needed to make it all work.

Gata Ticket Router - Dave Hall
During this session Dave Hall will walk through Gata, the support ticket triage tool he’s built. Gata isn’t a fancy prompt. This is a new open source project that manages the data pipeline, MLOps, ticket triage and more. In testing with real world data, Gata assigned tickets to the correct team ~93% of the time - humans could only average 72%.
Learn how various serverless AWS services can be assembled like Voltron to create a powerful ticket triage system that helps support agents respond faster.